Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...income tax, endorsed by both national parties, is the leading issue of the present campaign, and that the people have a right to know how their representatives intend to vote on this important question. Believing this, the club has undertaken the work and the expense of making a canvass of all candidates for the legislature...
...system. The more we recognize these disadvantages, the more we ought to look-out that the system does not become burdened by new and superfluous dangers. I am sorry to see that a new harm connected with the election of courses is threatening in consequence of the postal card canvass of the Seniors which the Harvard Illustrated Magazine instituted and published the week before last...
When I first read it, I was amused and thought it good fun. But to my surprise I have discovered in talking with students who consulted me about their choice of courses for next that there are men who really consider this canvass report of favorite and regretted courses a guide for their election. Under these circumstances, it ought to be said with emphasis that taken seriously the canvass is misleading and dangerous...
...easy to take care that no one of them would regret it. Or I might make the course entertaining and adjust it to the level of the friend who "slept most of the time." In either case the course would beautifully climb up in the list of the canvass, but its chief purpose would be missed. My aim has been every year to bring psychology to as many men as there are seats in the largest hall of Emerson and yet to keep the course on a high scientific level so that the best men may get the most possible...
...knew the quality of the voter. Above all it would be dangerous for our elective system, if serious students were guided by such a commentary in the choice of their courses. There may be poor courses in the University, but the chances are great that this kind of canvassing with this kind of answering and tabulating entirely distorts the picture and works as a warning, just when encouragement would be in the highest interest of the University. If such a canvass became influential, we should rapidly come to a point where only the immediately "useful" courses would be well attended...